Li Shouyi and Wang Yi led the remaining defeated soldiers, who were attacked by Di Yan's arrows from both sides, and managed to get out of the attack range of the arrows with a narrow escape. However, as the stunned officers and soldiers watched the South City Gate getting closer and closer, Before I had time to take a breath, I heard the sound of a violent drum beating from behind like thunder getting louder and louder. Then in the deep darkness behind the officers and soldiers, countless figures faintly flashed out. Those golden people whose armor collided with each other. The sound, to the ears of the officers and soldiers, was like the silent approach of death. Under the increasingly dense drumbeats, the approach of those people sent chills down the backs of every officer and soldier.
Li Shouyi patted his horse and moved forward quickly, while looking back towards the dark alleys with cold sweat on his face. He couldn't explain why. Although people's footsteps are not as powerful as horse power, they would definitely not catch up before leaving the city, but in this quiet and quiet street. On the strange street, in addition to the hurried hooves of the officers and soldiers, there was the sound of drums wafting in the sky, and the rest was the faint sound of soldiers clashing behind them. Hearing all this, The ears are standing, but there is something strange and terrifying that cannot be described.
This feeling also exists in Wang Yi's heart. Just now, the fighting was bloody and bloody, and the street was still bloody, but now he has changed his role so easily, showing his quiet and peaceful side very quickly. , if it weren't for the patches of blood on his armor that reminded Wang Yi of the tragedy just now, Wang Yi would have been in a daze thinking of his usual routine patrols in the city. But at this moment, such a silence that was inconsistent with the background, in Wang Yi's heart Seeing the waves of fur, he couldn't help tightening his horse's belly, and whipping the horse even harder. As the team retreated all the way towards the south gate, this Huayin County town, in his heart, felt that strange feeling. The indescribable feeling made him not want to stay any longer, or even want to attack back again.
Just as Li Shouyi and Wang Yi were galloping on horseback, almost reaching the South City Gate in a frightening way, the swishing sound hidden in the darkness behind them suddenly stopped, and in the darkness, a rather proud voice rang out softly. .
"Master Liu, are we going to chase you here?"
After hearing this, Liu Quantian looked at the officers and soldiers fleeing in embarrassment, raised his head involuntarily, and said sarcastically: "As the saying goes: 'Send an army thousands of miles away, but there will be a farewell.' Why should we be so polite? Besides, it's not far away." , there are still people waiting for him, we don’t need to bother, hahaha, let’s go back to the West Tower to help big brother,”
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The south gate tower became more and more clear in Li Shouyi and Wang Yi's eyes. As they approached with galloping horses, they gradually saw it clearly and couldn't help but feel happy. Originally, what Li Shouyi and Wang Yi had planned in their hearts was to bathe in blood. Fighting hard to get out, after all, he recklessly entered the siege of others. To put it bluntly, it is not "catching a turtle in a urn" or "beating a dog with a closed door". If you want to get out, you have to pay a price. Once the city gate is closed, With ambushes all around, there will inevitably be a bloody battle, a tough battle. When the time comes, it will be a question of how many people can escape alive.
But at this moment, Li Shouyi and Wang Yi felt greatly relieved because the south gate of Huayin County was not as locked as they imagined. This meant that as long as their group of people rushed out of the city, It's not a problem, but I've always heard that Shi Jin has many tricks and calculations, so why didn't Shi Jin close the city gate here and eliminate the main siege force of officers and soldiers in the city? This should be the best thing to do. Why did Shi Jin not do this, but chose to let the "tiger" return to the mountain?
Li Shouyi couldn't figure it out, and Wang Yi couldn't figure it out even more. But now is not the time for people like them who are in danger to think about others. Just when they have doubts in their hearts, they just hear a shout from the south city gate. , suddenly a group of archers appeared on the top of the city. Without saying a word, they gave a farewell gift to the officers and soldiers who were busy running below.
Li Shouyi took a look in his heart and immediately cursed Shi Jin in his heart. He asked why Shi Jin would leave a gate. It turned out that a team of people had been arranged here to "beat up the drowned dog". However, whether it was a rain of arrows or a trap, , at least it was much better than the onlookers who closed the city gate and cut off the escape route, so he did not care whether his men could survive or not, he shook the iron-containing caltrop gun in his hand, and shot one after another gun flowers above his head, In order to save his life, he showed off his lifelong martial arts skills and blocked the rain of arrows from the sky.
But except for Wang Yi and a few lieutenants, others don't have this ability. Otherwise, how can they be small soldiers? Soldiers like these following them only rely on destiny and cleverness. However, people have misfortune and good fortune. This sentence The words say everything to death. No matter how good your life is, you can only escape one or two piercing arrow feathers. But facing this dense array of arrows coming down, even if you kill three generations of your ancestors, All the accumulated virtues are consumed here, and it is impossible to make ends meet.
It is only a few dozen steps away from the south city gate, but if you can fight your way to the gate, and then fight your way out of the city, out of the attack range of the two hundred strides of arrows, you are really lucky to have arrows on your ancestors' graves. Green smoke.
Li Shouyi ran all the way out of the attack circle of the arrow rain. Before he could catch his breath, he looked back and saw that the man who had just followed him and wanted to break out of the city had already broken through the sieve-like south gate, including the arrows. Including the injured officers and soldiers who could barely move, there were only three to four hundred people. Looking at Wang Yi's troops, there were already less than a hundred people. How could Zhu Ning explain such a disastrous defeat, but Li Shouyi's cruel fate Gritting his teeth at the injustice, the drums beat like thunder again on the top of the South Gate City. At this moment, the officers and soldiers were like frightened birds. Before they could figure out the situation, they ran without stopping and rushed all the way to the officers and soldiers camp.
Perhaps Li Shouyi and other officers and soldiers would never have thought until their death that the drum beating was just a message sent by the small leader of the south gate tower to Shi Jin, telling him that his side had won a great victory.
But just as Li Shouyi was running wildly towards the camp, suddenly another army of soldiers and horses appeared halfway. Li Shouyi and others were shocked at first, but when they looked at the banner of the soldiers and horses, they suddenly felt relieved. He breathed, and the fatigue all over his body suddenly started to feel relieved. Even Wang Yi, who had been panicking all the way, could barely calm down at this time, and the arrow wound on his right shoulder blade began to cause large swaths of pain.
Just when the officers and soldiers could take a breather to meet their own troops and slow down the advance of the army, the powerful army with a large banner written by Peng Zetao had no intention of stopping and rushed towards Li Shouyi's troops. The person who rushed forward was a man with a strong back and a strong waist. He held a large Xuanhua ax across his hand and shouted violently, charging straight at Li Shouyi.
Li Shouyi was startled and looked intently at the person who was one of his own, Peng Zetao. At this critical moment, Li Shouyi did not bother to explain any more and just shouted loudly: "I am Li Shouyi."
However, Peng Zetao, who was galloping towards him, didn't seem to buy his account. He shouted: "Go to hell," and then swung his Xuanhua ax and chopped off Li Shouyi's head immediately. Because this happened suddenly, Before Li Shouyi died, he didn't even have time to rein in the horse, let alone raise his weapon to block it. At this moment, Li Shouyi's head was wiped off. Five steps after the blood spattered on his body, he still followed the horse and ran out seven or eight times. Then he lost his balance and fell off the horse from one side.
When Wang Yi saw this incident, his heart suddenly became cold. He was about to swing his Guandao to save his life, but he saw Peng Zetao had reined in his horse five steps away in front of him, and sheathed the Xuanhua ax with a sound like rolling thunder. He said authentically: "General Wang, don't panic, I am acting under secret orders." After saying that, he paused and said in a louder voice: "General Li leads the army and kills the enemy bravely. He is the pillar of the country. The only generals of the Song Dynasty. It's a pity that he was killed by Shi Jin and other rebels in the formation. Someone came and collected General Li's body and sent it back to the tent for a grand burial."
After saying this order, several of Peng Zetao's men immediately galloped out, dismounted and followed the generals to take care of Li Shouyi's body. At this time, Wang Yi and the deputy generals who were stunned on the spot also suddenly understood that a He remained silent, acquiescing to this unwritten "fact".
Peng Zetao looked at everyone's reaction and couldn't help but sneered and said to General Wang Yi: "General Wang, it seems that you are in a bad situation."
Wang Yi had just seen that he had killed Li Shouyi with a quick stroke of his sword. He might have some unknown mission, so he didn't dare to provoke him at the moment, so he lowered his eyebrows and said obediently: "It's not that we are incompetent, it's true. …”
"The gangsters are really too cunning," Peng Zetao said the second half of the sentence for him and snorted coldly.
Just when Wang Yi suddenly felt the burning shame on his face, a sudden gust of knife wind blew up, causing a few scattered strands of black hair on his forehead to fly away. However, before Wang Yi could fight back, the blood stains on the knife were not dry yet. Xuan Hua's ax had already been placed on Wang Yi's neck. The cold ax blade pressed against the skin of his neck, causing Wang Yi's heart to stop for a moment and then his breathing became more rapid. He trembled and said: " Peng...General Peng, what...this...means,"
Peng Zetao held the Xuanhua ax tightly, his face was cold and showed no trace of friendship, and he said coldly: "Master Zhu said that anyone who intends to retreat must have an explanation."
"Explain...what, what...explain, don't forget, it was Wang Yi who pushed and promoted you, and you have Peng Zetao today," General Wang Yi already knew the answer, but he still didn't give up, after all, his head was now away from his neck It's just Li Shouyi.
"I... naturally know that, so I allow you to take a breath. Tell me, if there is anything you want to keep, I will take it back. I will never forget your kindness to me. I will take care of your family every month." My money will not be bullied by others, but... I dare not go against Mr. Zhu's words, because if I don't take your life to go back and explain, then I have to take my own life to explain... General Wang, this is a loss-making business. "If it were you, you wouldn't do it," Peng Zetao said, turning to look at Wang Yi, but there was a fierce look in his eyes.
But everything was extremely still at this moment. Before Wang Yi could say anything, chaos broke out at the officers and soldiers camp, and dazzling fire suddenly shot up into the sky.